[MamaGonFishin]

Poor kid.

[U.B.Hotch]

Bob Saget style...

[mr_feelgood]

great video

[Yanni]

Originally Posted by U.B.Hotch ↗

Bob Saget style...

minus the booze and pills

[rbz1819]

Thump goes the noggin. He doesn't even get to file for workman's comp.

[dlclotus]

Originally Posted by rohmell ↗

I wouldn't think that's fatal, since I fell off of a hoverboard in a similar manner.

Back of the head injuries are no fucking joke. The back of the brain is where the important parts hang out.

[yah]

Originally Posted by spycosis ↗

Did you just twat the back of your head ? Normally damage at the front fucks the smell and taste up. Guess you must have been in a bad way given you were in the ICU. Glad you're not dead anyway, happens so easily.

Thanks. It was what's known as a coup-contrecoup injury. A coup injury is damage at the point of impact. A contrecoup injury is when the brain sloshes back & forth & the opposite side slams into the inside of the skull. A coup-contrecoup injury is when you have both. I had relatively minor bleeding (not thick clumps) throughout the brain. The olfactory nerves descend from the brain to the nose & are frequently damaged by this type of injury when they're stretched/torn as the brain is sloshing back & forth. I was pretty fuzzy for some time after I left the hospital.

[RogerSmithLikesDrugs]

Why can't the welfare scum do this, not a hard working young man, sad

[tricon7]

What if he had only broken his neck? The black guy who idiotically lifted him off the flood would have killed him, or at a minimum paralyzed him from the neck down for life. It drives me crazy - people nowadays are too busy playing video games or watching TV to educate themselves.

[spycosis]

Originally Posted by yah ↗

I was pretty fuzzy for some time after I left the hospital.

Yeah I bet you were, that's fucking crazy. A guy in my class at college died after some random dickhead punched him for no reason when he was walking home one evening. He fell backwards and hit his head on the kerb, that was the injury that was fatal according to the coroner's report. He was 19 years old. The cunt who did it only got 4 years in prison for it.

From the sounds of it you were really lucky to have survived that. I can't imagine living with no sense of smell. Are you aware of it a lot or have you got used to it ? Has it changed the kind of food you eat? I'm curious to understand it, hope you don't mind me asking all these questions.